Category: the realness

Basil Fawlty is alive and well and hating you all

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Whilst staying in a guesthouse in Pestilu Mare, we are the only guests. Sometimes that will mean extra care and attention, but sadly, not today. A couple who clearly loathe each other decided to earn some money by running a guest house which is an inspired idea.  Husband is still desperately trying to find jobs […]

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looking for troubles

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Some observations about “the Troubles”… Having spent all of four days in Northern Ireland, I would not presume to be able to tell you what it was/is all about, but I can tell you what I saw, felt and had relayed to me. Ireland was ruled by the Catholic King James II, and it was […]

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Reasons we are sad to leave Yorkshire

.Reading time 2 minutes.

THE most friendly and caring people we have ever met in our travels, kind, funny, welcoming, helpful, interested, compassionate, comfortable…(I could go on).  When we arrived by train in York, the announcement said that you should wind your watch back to 1978.  I would in a heartbeat. A sense of home….Sunday roasts (extra gravy?)  No […]

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